Mar
Home Studio Newby - Part 2
Now that I’ve got my feet wet with my shiny new M-Audio Fast Track Pro Mobile USB Audio/MIDI Interface things are starting to come together and it’s all getting a bit exciting.
Still facing some challenges with latency and distortion and the fact that my computer is pushing 6 years old doesn’t help either. Ideally I’d like to put it on my laptop but the software that comes with it (Ableton) doesn’t work properly on Vista..
I know I know – get a Mac you home studio heads are screaming and maybe when I have the space and funds for a computer to dedicate to home recording I will, but until then it has to go on the XP machine which is running on 1.4 GHZ, 1 GB RAM and 2 hard drives adding up to a total of about 80 GB.
There’s plenty of stuff running on it as well which doesn’t help, but gradually all important stuff is coming off so this computer can be dedicated to gaming and recording. The 1.4 GHZ won’t cut it for much longer, especially with live guitar tracks going through it so it looks like a new machine is on the shopping list… *sigh*…
So – I’m afraid I haven’t had much of a chance to do much computer optimising for recording guitar tracks through the sound card but I have been going through the Ableton tutorials and making some headway there. This will all go into an easy-to-follow, complete newb-friendly, step-by-step PDF ebook which will be available free to beginner-guitar-lesson Acceleration Course subscribers.
In the mean time if you want to get your feet wet with recording some of your own stuff and mixing it up I can thoroughly recommend my latest purchase of an M-Audio fast track Pro bundled with Ableton Live (cut down ‘express’ version which will do you fine to start with – although it doesn’t work properly on Vista yet!). Stay tuned for more updates on my crash course into home recording and look out for the Free PDF which will be available to newsletter subscribers soon.
M-Audio Fast Track Pro Mobile USB Audio/MIDI Interface
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